Magnificent Rube
The Life and Gaudy Times of Tex Rickard
Published on 19. November 2020
294 pages
978-1-83974-640-6 (ISBN)
Description
"e;From the moment he was born, Tex Rickard seemed to be wherever the action was. He entered the world as a posse was riding by- the posse was after the James brothers. Rickard became a trail cowboy at eleven, and a town marshal in his early twenties. He was up in the Yukon Valley, working in gambling houses, two years before the Klondike gold rush started; there he prospected, made and lost several fortunes. As a sports promoter, he arranged title fights between Joe Gans and Battling Nelson in 1906 and Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries in 1910. He gained fame by creating-with the collaboration of Jack Dempsey-the world's first ''million-dollar gate'' (Dempsey fought Carpentier in 1921 at Jersey City to a paid crowd of 77,328.) Rickard made more on the bout than either of the fighters."e;
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Content
- Intro
- DEDICATION
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- 1-A stranger in town
- 2-The dime-novel boyhood
- 3-The heart of the violence
- 4-Paradise on ice
- 5-Rickard's real education begins
- 6-The first big jackpot
- 7-Tex Rickard's biggest lucky break
- 8-The first "Battle of the Century"
- 9-The jackass that kicked back
- 10-The double switcheroo
- 11-Shake hands with Madison Square Garden
- 12-The land of beginning again
- 13-In a place touched by magic
- 14-The Rickard masterpiece
- 15-"And every two or three years a big one"
- 16-Did you ever see six hundred millionaires?
- 17-The grand finale
- Bibliography
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
